Altering pants

Learn how to remove excess fabric from the back trouser legs to get your pants to fit better. Altering ready-to-wear or me-made clothing is made easy with this technique.

Recycling old clothes and destroying new clothes to look old are 'the' trends nowadays, or so says my daughter who is a new convert to alternate fashion. I am

So it's been a while since my last tutorial - here's one from a pair of granny pants I bought for $3.00 at the op-shop. I made this becaus...

The Clothes Alteration does save you money but it also gives you more clothing options! Knowing how to alter clothes is important for every sewer.

Q: Many of the ready-to-wear pants in my closet fit poorly. They have too much fullness in back. If I take them in at the side seams to reduce the…

When it comes to tailoring your wardrobe, mastering how to take in pants can be a game-changer. From ill-fitting jeans to wide-legged trousers, our guide offers practical advice for achieving that perfect fit. Tailoring not only saves money but also ensures your clothes highlight your personal style. Dive into our tutorials, and you'll learn the art of altering various types of pants with confidence. Creating a custom fit is simpler than you might think. Our step-by-step guide empowers you…

1. Lay pants with desired leg width on top of your old, but well fitting in the waist pair (after undoing hem). 2. Mark seam line wit...

Take in or let out the waist at the center-back seam using steps detailed by alterations expert Pamela Howard.

Altering pants pattern pieces calls for comparing body measurements to flat pattern pieces and making adjustments. Here’s how it works. […]

I posted a while back about taking in pants at the waist. And I had no idea how bad of an epidemic droopy drawers were until over 21,000 people read my post and pinned, and repinned, and repinned a…

Greetings my friends and a big Aussie hello to you all today. I hope that you learnt a new fitting technique from the previous post How to Lengthen Your Back Rise in relation to the new Harper Pants Pattern. For today’s post I am going to share with you the method on shortening your front [...]

So, as you already know, I am self taught…so I honestly just try things and hope for the best :) I won these awesome Abercrombie & Fitch corduroy pants on eBay recently…have I menti…

Or trousers, for the British persuasion. Before getting into a somewhat photo heavy post I thought I'd share a life update, because a lot has happened. For one, the 3rd anniversary of Mom's passing was on the first and eight days later was her birthday. Right before all this my husband's job was unexpectedly and with no warning, terminated. Georgia is an at-will state so they didn't need a reason to do so. Later we found out there was a management shift (rumors also of selling the company)…

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In this video you will learn to take in jeans waist and resize jeans waist. You may need to alter the jeans waist if its too loose or too tight. So in case if the jeans waist is too big then you can learn how to make jeans waist smaller with sewing and without sewing. Hey, I came with super easy and exciting hacks for downsizing the waist of the jeans. You already have seen our many videos about how to fix holes in jeans, pants, shirts. #jeans #resizewaist #alteration

Welcome to today’s thrift flip tutorial on how to alter pants that are too big. Here's how to resize pants that are too large.

What's one way to look expensive, even in cheap clothes? Perfectly hemmed pants! Check out our technique for a fool-proof hem, perfect for sewing beginners.

Before and after tailoring of a pair of pants. Alteration tips and price estimates. Includes taking in the waist and slimming the leg of J.Crew café capri.

Tailor and hem those slightly oversized jeans with a few easy steps.